-IB. 2 . 
Of the Hiftory of Plants. 
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Vitis Vinifera. 
The manured Vine. 
^ There is alfo another which beareih excee- 
ding fare grapes, whereof they make Raiiins, whi- 
ter coloured, and much exceeding the bfaneife of 
the common Raifin of the Sunne : yet that Grape 
whereof the Raifin of the Sun is made is a h r L 
one, and thought to be the Vua Zibibi of the Ara- 
bians; and it is that which Tabernamontanus fau_ 
red vnderthat name, who therein was folio, ved by" 
our Authouributthe figures being little to the 
purpofe, I haue though t'good to omit them . f 
There is another kinde of Vine, which hath 
great Ieaues very broad, ofanouerworhe colour, 
whereupon do grow great bunches of Grapes of a’ 
blcwifh colour: the pulpe or mearc whereof flic- 
keth Orcleaueth fo hard to the graines or little 
ftones, that the one is not cafilydiuided from the 
Other; refembhng fome ftarued or withered ber 
ne that hath been blafted, whereof it was named 
Hu racing. 
There be fome vines that bring forth grapes of 
awhitifhor reddifh yellow colour : others of a 
deepe red, both in the outward skinne, pulpe and 
uiyce within. 
There be others whofe grapes are of a blew co- 
Jour, or fomething red, yet is the iuyee like thofe 
of the former. Thefegrapes do yeeld forth a white 
wine before they are put into the prefTe,and a red- 
diih or paller Wine when they are trodden with 
the husks, and fo left to macerate or‘fermerit,with 
winch if they rema ine too long they yeeld forth a 
wine ofa higher colour. 
There be others which make a blacked obfeute red wine, whereof fome bring bigeer duffers ' 
and confift of greater grapes , others of lefTer : fome grow more cluftrcd and clofa together others 
loofer: fome haue but one.ftone, others more : fome make a more auftere or harfli wine • others a 
more fweet : of fome the old wine is beft , ofdiuers, the firft yeares wine is mod excellent : fome 
bring iorth fruit foure ft]uare,of which forts or kindes we haue great plenty. • 
IT 7 " he Place, 
A fit foile for Vines, faith Florentine s, is euery blacke earth, which is not very elofenor clam- 
my, bailing fome m oi ft u re ; notwith (landing Columella faiththat great regard is to be had what 
1 kinde or fort of Vine you would nourifh, according to the natureof the countrey and foile. 
Awile husbandman will commit toa fat and fruitful! foilealeanc Vine, and of his own nature 
j n °j t ?° . * l. toa Icane ground a fruitfull vine : toaclofeand compad earth a fpreading vine 
and thaus full ofmattet to make branches of: to a loofe and fruitfull foilea Vine of few bran! 
f leS ' (ana< ; Columella faith, that the V ine delighteth not in dung, of what kinde foeuer it be - 
cauf F f l ; , ;° aldmixed " dldl f°me fhauings of home is the belt to be di (poled about the roots, to 
•IT TheTime. 
Columella faith, that the Vines muft be pruned before the young branches bud forth. Palladia 
i writeth, m Februarie : if they be pruned later they lofe their nourifbmcnt with weeping. 
. . fj The Names. 
, : , ^ ' nc called in Greeke'A U »n», '>„%,&,■ as much to fay in Latins as, vitis Vinifera , or the Vine 
j w nen Jeareth wine ; and 'a™v« ; that is, Vitis manficfiHa, five culmia , Tame or manured Vine. 
1 And it 15 ctilled si»» w , that it may differ fro n both the Bryonies, the white and .the blacke , and 
It from Tamus, or our Ladies Seale, which be likewife named ‘V"A«. It is called Vitis, becaufe tnuita- 
tur aiuvas pawn Us. It ischerifhed to the intent to bring forth full cluflers, as Varro faith. 
, r ‘ *1 maketh Vua-Z beba, A'exivl'ina vitis, >.<x Vine of Alexandria, in his fourteenth booke, and 
t.iird.chapter, defcribingthe fame by thofe very words that Thcophraflus doth. Diofctridcs fetteth 
1 it Jowne to be altera (jrcies vitis fy’ncttris, or a fecond kinde of Wilde Vine ; but wee had rather re- 
taine it among the tame Vines, Wevnay name it in Englifh, Raifin Vine. The fruits hereof are 
called 
